{"id":139064,"date":"2025-09-12T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:20:07","slug":"still-progress-to-be-made-in-mental-health-and-addictions-support-as-province-marks-suicide-prevention-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139064\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Progress to be Made in Mental Health and Addictions Support as Province Marks Suicide Prevention Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hands-Support-Mental-Health.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Still Progress to be Made in Mental Health and Addictions Support as Province Marks Suicide Prevention Week\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The minister who signed a proclamation yesterday in St. John\u2019s to mark World Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week says they are making progress in the field, but there is still lots to do. <\/p>\n<p>Pam Parsons points to the opening of the new Mental Health and Addictions Facility as a step which has increased and improved supports for people who need help. <\/p>\n<p>She says anyone who need help should avail of services such as 8-1-1. <\/p>\n<p>She notes the formation of an all-party committee on mental health, substance abuse and addiction as a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>The 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline is also available to those who need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The minister who signed a proclamation yesterday in St. John\u2019s to mark World Suicide Prevention and Awareness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-139064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}